Decays of high spin Δ and N resonances in the quark model

Starting with a set of harmonic oscillator wavefunctions, we calculate partial decay rates of excited Δ and N states into a nucleon with single pion emission. Good agreement with values estimated from data is obtained for N< or =6, thus indicating that the simple quark model is reasonable over a much wider range than expected. The calculated decay rates of the even higher states depend more sensitively on the finer details of the nucleon wavefunction